On kosovo---how does one stop genocide? [View All]

[Zuni]

A number of people are calling the NATO intervention in kosovo an major war crime. But let me ask this: Would have been better to do nothing when all the signs pointed to the Serbs being readied for a genocidal campaign of terror?
Despite left wing and tinfoil hat claims to the contrary, thousands of kosovars had been killed, hundreds of villages set to fire and people were being forced out of kosovo before the bombing began.

What if the Western nations intervened in rwanda in the early stages of that genocide? Would you now be calling it imperialism and laugh at the notions that the Hutus were going to commit genocide?

If one is to prevent genocide, they cannot wait until it has already happened to stop it. You have to intervene quickly and decisevly. So NATO didn't wait until the body count reached genocidal proportions in Kosovo. The Serb actions in Bosnia, Croatia and what they had already done in kosovo suggested it would get ugly very soon.

Would have been better to just let the ethnic cleansing happen so the US wouldn't be labeled as Imperialist? Would it be better to listen to ramsey clark and call Milosevic a friendly socialist who was targetted because of his anti-imperialist stance?